The House Admin Committee is investigating a viral report about an American flag with a swastika embedded in it, because there may be much more to the story.
Rep. Dave Taylor (R., Ohio) is under fire because a junior staffer of his displayed what appears on camera to be an American flag with a swastika embedded in it.
The story went viral when a liberal Twitter account, The Rooster, tweeted that “a friend in DC had a Zoom call with Congressman Dave Taylor’s office today… Taylor’s legislative correspondent…had what can only be described as an American swastika flag prominently displayed in his background.”
But the Committee on House Administration, led by Rep. Bryan Steil (R., Wis.) is opening an investigation because, a source familiar with the matter exclusively told the Washington Reporter, all may not be what it appears.
From the onset, the allegations that Taylor’s legislative correspondent had a swastika embedded in the American flag seemed suspect. “No Hill staffer would knowingly put that up in their office,” a longtime Hill veteran told the Reporter.
And that may be exactly what happened. A source familiar with the House Admin Committee’s investigation told the Reporter that numerous Hill offices received similar flags earlier in the year that appear to the naked eye to be perfectly innocuous.
“The image that went viral is not doctored,” the source said. But anyone who walked past Taylor’s staffer’s desk would see a normal American flag.
Another GOP member of Congress told the Reporter that one of her staffers received a similar flag while working in a different GOP office on the Hill.
A member of the House Admin Committee remarked to the Reporter of the brewing scandal that the saga “shows how legacy corporate media tries to blow up conservatives without asking any questions.”